A new randomized,
double-blind, placebo-controlled cardiovascular study evaluating natural
vitamin E, synthetic vitamin C, and synthetic beta-carotene shows that
natural vitamin E significantly reduced heart disease and is a wonderful
dietary supplement for any person concerned about their heart and cardiovascular
health. The primary end point of the study was to determine the prevention
of either cardiovascular death or serious cardiovascular disease. Natural
vitamin E showed an impressive and statistically significant 13% reduction.
Natural vitamin E also showed improvement in secondary end points of the
study, including a 22% reduction in heart attacks, a 27% reduction in
strokes (31% when combined with vitamin C), and a 9% reduction in cardiovascular
death. These results for natural vitamin E are nothing short of astounding
as they used the gold standard of human testing!

In an absolutely
unbelievable reporting of their own study information the authors erroneously
concluded “There were no overall effects of ascorbic acid, vitamin E,
or beta carotene on cardiovascular events among women at high risk for
cardiovascular disease.” This is a flat out lie based on their own study
data that they report in the American Medical Association’s Archives
of Internal Medicine. They concocted this false and misleading conclusion
by including the people who said they were supposed to be taking vitamin
E but really didn’t take the vitamin E in the final statistical analysis.
The study participants who actually took the natural vitamin E had the
dramatic benefits listed in the first paragraph, which the authors failed
to report in the study abstract. Instead, the authors fed a false and
negatively slanted view of the study to the media, none of whom bothered
to check the actual study. The media then proceeded to spread a false
negative view of truly remarkable findings on vitamin E and heart health.

Taking a Closer
Look at the Study Results

The following two
paragraphs are what the study actually says about vitamin E. The first
paragraph says that vitamin E did not do much of anything, which is what
the authors reported. The second paragraph says that when they re-evaluated
the Vitamin E data by removing people from the vitamin E group who failed
to actually take the vitamin E, the results were extremely good. This
is the important information about what natural vitamin E actually did.
The authors didn’t tell the media about this and the media didn’t bother
looking into the study.

VITAMIN E

No differences
were seen in the primary end point by randomized vitamin E assignment
(RR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.85-1.04 [P=.23]) (Table 2 and Figure 2), with no
significant variation in the relative risk over time. We found a nonsignificant
16% reduction in total stroke, with a 21% reduction in ischemic stroke
(P=.06) and an increase in hemorrhagic stroke based on small numbers.
There was an overall 10% reduction in the combination of MI, stroke,
and CVD death, with a nonsignificant decrease (P=.08) in benefit over
time. No difference in total mortality by vitamin E group was found.

Censoring participants
on noncompliance led to a significant 13% reduction in the primary end
point (RR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.76-0.99 [P=.04]). Reductions in secondary
study end points were also stronger, with a 22% reduction in MI (RR,
0.78; 95% CI, 0.58-1.06 [P=.11]), a 27% reduction in stroke (RR, 0.73;
95% CI, 0.54-0.98 [P=.04]), and a 9% reduction in CVD mortality (RR,
0.91; 95% CI, 0.66-1.25 [P=.55]). There was a 23% reduction in the combination
of MI, stroke, or CVD death (RR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.64-0.92 [P=.005]).
Among those with prior CVD, the active vitamin E group experienced fewer
major CVD events (RR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.79-1.00 [P=.04]; P value for interaction,
.07) (Table 3).

In order for a result
to be statistically significant the P value must be less than .05. In
this case the primary end point of the study, the 27% reduction in stroke,
the 23% reduction in the combination of MI (heart attack), stroke, or
CVD death, and the fewer major CVD events in those with a history of CVD
were all statistically significant. These are the impressive results of
the people who actually took the natural vitamin E.

Vitamin E has
Been Wrongly Attacked Before

As I have pointed
out in my previous
writing, Vitamin E has been viciously and fraudulently attacked by
powerful vested interests, especially researchers funded primarily by
Big Pharma. This has nothing to do with real science, and everything to
do with a media-backed Big Pharma PR machine trying to convince Americans
to take toxic and health-deteriorating drugs instead of safe and effective
vitamins. It is likely the study authors, researchers of the heavily Big
Pharma-backed Brigham
and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an affiliate of Harvard Medical School,
were pressured into writing findings that negated vitamin E. Or else the
study authors were totally biased and could not believe the spectacular
vitamin E results.

In the current study
the natural form of vitamin E used was d alpha tocopherol acetate at the
dose of 600 IU every other day. Even this form of vitamin E could have
been improved upon by using a full mixture of tocopherols or the truly
superior tocotrienols. However, at least it was a high quality form of
natural vitamin E that was used, unlike studies that used synthetic vitamin
E and produced questionable outcomes. Consumers should always avoid synthetic
vitamin E, which has an “l” after the “d”, so it looks like “dl alpha”
on the label instead of “d alpha.”

Synthetic Beta
Carotene did not Help the Heart – No Surprise

I would also like
to point out that the synthetic beta carotene used in the study (Lurotin
from the BASF, 50 mg every other day) is the same worthless compound found
to increase lung cancer in smokers. This pathetic “vitamin” is produced
by a German drug company that is actively participating to have vitamins
regulated worldwide as well as to promote synthetic vitamins as no different
than natural. Since the end of the 1930s BASF has been pouring millions
of tons of coal tar-derived food coloring into our food supply, poisoning
our citizens - with the blessings of the Big Pharma-owned FDA. The Germans
like to synthesize vitamins from chemical sources, as their own country
is so poor in natural resources that they can’t make anything from a real
food source and thus can’t make a profit selling vitamins unless they
are concocted from chemicals. Synthetic beta carotene is made by extracting
benzene rings from acetylene gas, and then attaching the benzene rings
together to form 100% all-trans-beta-carotene. There is no food source
that contains 100% all-trans-beta-carotene.

One example of high
quality natural beta carotene is the sea algae Dunaliella salinas,
which contains a mixture of 9-cis-beta carotene as well as trans-beta-carotene
along with related nutrients such as alpha-carotene, cryptoxanthin, and
zeaxanthin. Natural source beta carotene contains a powerful complex of
nutrients not present in synthetic beta carotene. Research
shows that 9-cis-beta carotene transports much more efficiently in
the body. My advice is to avoid synthetic beta carotene which can always
be identified because the natural source of the beta carotene is not listed
on the label.

Consumer Action
is Needed

I have been working
with Mike Adams over at NewsTarget.com to help get the word out about
the false impression the media has given the world about this study. It
is a shame that health-related politics, financial pressures, or researcher
bias prevent the publishing of the true meaning of an important study,
especially when the findings would cause millions of consumers to abandon
dangerous drugs in favor of natural vitamin E. It is a shame that the
media has been conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to spread Big Pharma sponsored
anti-vitamin bad news as if it is the truth. It is also a shame that important
studies fail to use the high quality forms of nutrients, proving only
that synthetic garbage does not work. A combination of antioxidants from
natural sources is primary dietary support for the reduction of heart
disease and cancer, as well as naturally boosting the immune system –
the science in this regard is overwhelmingly positive.

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Richards
encourages individuals to take charge of their health, stand up for their
health rights, and not blindly succumb to propaganda from the vested-interests
who profit from keeping Americans sick. As founder of Wellness Resources,
Inc. of Minneapolis, MN, an independently-owned fine-quality dietary supplement
company since 1985, he has personally developed 75 unique nutraceutical-grade
nutritional formulas. www.wellnessresources.com